In about 100 years the effects of global warming will start to become inconvenient for humans. During which time we will likely have made the technological innovations we need to solve this problem without giving up our way of life or stifling our progress and ability to make such innovations.

Where do you get 50,000 barrels a day? I have seen many estimates, those that are backed up by any credible facts/math range between 5000 and 30,000 barrels a day.

No matter what the EPA is able to achieve, China, India and others will continue to pump out greenhouse gasses like there's no tomorrow. Meanwhile back here in the US I won't be able to afford air conditioning because we will have eliminated all the cheap sources of electricity.

So a minor with a naked picture of another minor on their phone is a sex offender, but an adult in a position of power who forces a minor to strip is not.

I used PHP for the first couple years of my career and I honestly like the language. PHP has its place, and that is rapidly creating dynamic web sites and simple web apps. The company I worked for absolutely smoked the competition when it came to development time and therefore cost.

If your project is complicated enough that you are thinking about paying for a framework that can provide a clean separation of logic and presentation, it's time to move on to bigger and better things. A Java/Tomcat/Struts solution using Eclipse for development is free. A .NET solution is not free but still a good choice also.